How Yoga Can Help You Find Your Voice

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How Yoga Can Help You Find Your Voice

Voice is more than vocal chords – it’s what we say, how we say it and the influence that has on both our inner and outer worlds.  Phoebe shares a yoga practice that focuses on developing the depth and resonance of your voice as a powerful way to becoming your authentic self, making real in the world, what you envisage internally. “the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

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Avoiding Wastage: A Mindful Personal Accounting System

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Avoiding Wastage: A Mindful Personal Accounting System

Natalie takes a look at how preventing waste in our own internal world can have a lasting impact the way we treat external resources. She offers the practice of Mindfulness as one potential solution to the economy of waste that we find ourselves in. This is meditation and activism all rolled into one.

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Cool as a Cucumber: How to Cool Down with Green Juice

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Cool as a Cucumber: How to Cool Down with Green Juice

A lot has been written on the virtues of a cold press vegetable juice, but did you know that it can also be a very good temperature regulator? Blanka, who has to spend some time in Summer working from her boss’s home office space ‘under a hot tin roof’, shares her strategies for cooling it down when you have no access to air conditioning.

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Everyday Epiphanies: ‘The Mirror Within: a new look at sexuality’ by Anne Dickson

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Everyday Epiphanies: ‘The Mirror Within: a new look at sexuality’ by Anne Dickson

This month, Lauren’s been reading ‘The Mirror Within: a new look at sexuality’ and is here to share what she’s learnt. From appreciation of your physical body, to acknowledging the erotic in everyday life; what can we do as friends, lovers, sisters and mothers to help ourselves and other women better connect with their sexual selves?

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Learn the Art of Self Love in a Culture of Criticism and Comparison

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Learn the Art of Self Love in a Culture of Criticism and Comparison

Loving yourself is not egotistical or vain, it is the key to happy and fulfilled relationships, and peace of mind. Learn how to cultivate the art of self-love, even in a culture of comparison and criticism, because the most important relationship you will ever have is with yourself.

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On Interbeing: Cultivating Deep Connection to Others and the World

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On Interbeing: Cultivating Deep Connection to Others and the World

In the coming decade, a radical shift of humanity towards a more ingrained sense of interconnectedness with others and the environment is needed to keep the forces of greed and self-interest that are causing so much suffering and that have the potential to cause irreparable damage to our planet in check. No less than the lives of our children depend on it.

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The Story Behind Yoga's "Warrior" Poses

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The Story Behind Yoga's "Warrior" Poses

Anyone who has step a foot in a Yoga class would have been told to hold a warrior, to move from cat to cow, or to lift into downward facing dog. Many of these poses find their names as their shapes resemble an animal or a function, but some have an actual story rooted in the Indian history and Hindu tradition.

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Start Your Day Swishing For a Radiant Smile

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Start Your Day Swishing For a Radiant Smile

Use the ancient Ayurvedic technique of oil swishing to take gentle but powerful care of your oral cavity, clear toxins out of the body and freshen your breath. Using cold pressed oils with some healing botanicals might be just the upgrade that will make your gums sing with radiant vitality and your teeth shine with health.

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Mudra of the Month : Varuna Mudra

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Mudra of the Month : Varuna Mudra

Varuna Mudra, when practiced regularly, can encourage us to taste the sweetness of life. Feeling low or experiencing depression can make us unable to absorb the wonderful things around us, we can become desensitised to these natural antidepressants. It can feel as though we are eating a beautiful cake that has no flavour.  

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Spice Rack: Grilled Pineapple and Tamarind Salad

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Spice Rack: Grilled Pineapple and Tamarind Salad

Now the sun’s shining (well nearly…) this a lovely bright summery dish. I’ve used flavours that both compliment and contrast each other - sweet, juicy pineapple, tart and fruity tamarind, earthy cumin, peppery fresh watercress and hot chilli.

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